Is Cosmo part of the marketing wing of the abortion
industry? Dr. Alveda C. King thinks so.

King, the pro-life
niece of Martin Luther King, Jr., attended a Washington, D.C. press
conference launching
“Cosmo Harms Minors,” a
campaign by Victoria Hearst and the National Center on Sexual Exploitation on
April 22. At the event, Dr. King explained to MRC Culture that Cosmo’s material
helps “line the pockets of the abortion industry,” and that, “Planned
Parenthood is joining Cosmo” to “lead that girl into an abortion.”

Women’s magazine Cosmopolitan “target[s] young girls to
expand their audience and increase profits,” a press release announcing the
event
read, with a “pornographic ‘how-to’ sex guide encouraging readers to engage
in violent and dangerous sexual acts in every issue.”

When MRC Culture asked about Cosmo’s glamorization
of abortion to young girls, Dr. King highlighted the magazine’s connection to
the abortion industry.﻿

“[B]y promoting hyper-sexuality, which would cause the
girls, perhaps, to get an early pregnancy or unexpected or premature pregnancy
- one that they were not looking for - it leads them right to the door of the
abortion clinic,” she said. “So these links are together. Cosmo is promoting behavior that's going to help to line the pockets of
the abortion industry."

Dr. King explained the connection between those links.

“[W]hen a young girl reads Cosmo and sees all this
supercharged sexuality, buys into the sexual liberty of the day, and involves
herself in those types of activities,” she said, “then the next natural force –
or unnatural, depending on how you look at it – would be, ‘Well, I'm pregnant
now. I just wanted to have fun; I didn't want to have a baby.’”

“And then Planned
Parenthood is joining Cosmo right there to lead that girl into an abortion,”
she added.

﻿On top of highlighting
stories like how abortion can strengthen relationships, Cosmo
recently showcased both
Cecile
Richards, president of abortion giant Planned Parenthood and Ilyse
Hogue, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America in its articles.

Like
Planned Parenthood, Cosmo plans to
wipe out pro-life candidates – an announcement that came shortly
after Planned Parenthood bestowed its
“Excellence in Media Award” to Cosmo.

Comso, King told MRC Culture, concerns her as both a
mother and grandmother. “I can remember with my own daughters,” she began, “and
they'd look over and see Cosmo: “Oh, I wanna be like that!” And I’m saying, “Baby,
you don't wanna be like that. You're very beautiful, and we don’t affirm who
you are by that kind of approach.’"

“And to me,” she added, “some of it is trash, and to me,
trash belongs in bags. So I say, “Cosmo, you need to bag that up and move it out
of the vision of our girls.”